Like in "WALL-E" and "Short Circuit" the accidentally developed intelligence is benign, and even friendly. (There is even a theory about why it develops this way, although that theory seems to be clearer in the filmmakers' minds than in the script.) Unlike "Subservience" and "Ex Machina" it does not immediately try to kill us all. Like in "Her" the intelligence leaves (for a reason), but like "The Iron Giant" there is a promise of a return.
There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. There has obviously (from one scene) been significant sea rise. Was the island formerly part of the mainland? Is that why human live in a dome? Are there any other domes? How do the humans live? How do the version of the Three Laws of Robotics result in the killer robots and Vontra? And why doesn't Vontra get what's coming to her?
But, overall, it's really sweet.
(And probably your only chance to see Mark Hamill playing a bear.)
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